Tag: biological information
Preview: James Tour, Brian Miller on the Origin of “Data Risk Management” in DNA
If computer scientists build systems like that, and life at the DNA level also incorporates them, for the very same reasons, that’s rather suggestive.
Message in Matter: Intelligent Design in the Atoms
What atheists and materialists can’t explain is why this fitness is so special, so unforgivingly precise and intricate, at every stage on the journey to us.
Is Information a Naturally Occurring Phenomenon?
“Consider the toothpicks. If we drop them on the ground and let them scatter randomly, they will have no shape and will thus be uninformative.”
Mistakes Our Critics Make: Limits of Evolutionary Processes
The evolution of many complex traits, such as echo location in whales, requires the modification or creation of numerous proteins, physical structures, and neural connections.
Mistakes Our Critics Make: Information Theory
Researchers felt compelled to describe biological information using such phrases as “coding schemes,” “carries meaning,” “core program,” and “hierarchical rules (grammar).”